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May 14, 2010

Here are the hottest cheerleaders in the world, the girls of "Las Marineritas De Almirante Brown" from the 3rd Division (minor leagues) of the professional Argentine Football League.

This team was so bad that a few years ago they started using "Porritas" (cheerleaders) in their home matches. As all footballers know, American style cheerleaders don't belong in world football, but this club needed a little help in their attendance so they hired these local girls to help. That's right - local neighborhood girls, not models!

Their choreography may need some more work compare to their U.S. counter parts in the NFL, but no one cares about that during their half-time show. The fans are looking at other things....

May 13, 2010

Playboy wrote ~ "Playboy got a sneak peek at the official 2010 World Cup soccer jerseys before they were unveiled...and we asked super hot Danielle Fornarelli to wear them." Check out all of the World jersey photos at Playboy's Nike U.S. World Cup Jersey.

May 07, 2010

Here are the wives and girlfriends of seven of the top footballers in the world in a photo session for the Umbro World Champions Collection for the upcoming 19th FIFA World Cup, South Africa 2010. Each one of these seven girls and the jerseys they are wearing represents all the current and former World Cup champions in the history.

Football Shirt Culturewrote - "The wives and girlfriends of seven international football stars have been shot by legendary photographer Rankin for a stunning global advertising campaign to promote Umbros new World Champions Collection.

Abbey Clancy, the girlfriend of England striker Peter Crouch, has joined six other women who, like her, currently or previously have either dated or married an international footballer. And to make it even more relevant to this summers event, each girl represents one of the seven countries that have ever won the worlds biggest football tournament - Argentina, Brazil, England, France, Germany, Italy and Uruguay.

The striking image Rankin has produced is based on an iconic campaign run by Umbro in 1967, which famously featured girls cheekily wearing football shirts as dresses. For 2010, the campaign has been brought right up to date with the girls modelling the Umbro World Champions Collection. This truly inspired football range has been designed in collaboration with some of the hottest international artists, each hailing from the same country as each model. The twist in the brief to them was to base their design on the tailored silhouette of the Umbro England home shirt. I thought the idea of creating a modern interpretation of the Umbro advert from the sixties was an interesting concept. The girls in the campaign all look stunning and they were a pleasure to work with. Im extremely pleased with the results, says Rankin.

Rankin spent two days photographing these beautiful women. Argentina is represented by Luli Fernandez and has been designed in collaboration with Buenos Aires based record label, ZZK Records. Brazil is represented by the wife of Julio Cesar, Susana Werner, wearing a shirt designed by Fernando Chamarelli, an illustrator, visual artist and tattoo designer from Sao Paolo.

Model and TV presenter, Abbey Clancy, wears the England shirt. Abbey is striking in a shirt with a crest designed by Ben Eine, one of Englands most prominent street artists and graffiti pioneers. I loved the shoot with Rankin and the opportunity to be a part of recreating the famous Umbro advert from 67. The crest design is a really fun take on a traditional, regal crest, said Abbey.

Charlene Suric, girlfriend of France & Arsenal left back Gaël Clichy, is wearing the French shirt, designed in collaboration with Andre, the Paris based graffiti artist and international fashion authority.

Germany is represented by Julia Godicke. Julias shirt has been designed by Marok, Berlins legendary magazine mogul and cultural icon. Alice Bregoli is married to Alberto Gilardino, the Italian and Fiorentina player, and will be featured wearing a shirt designed in collaboration with Italian comics author, illustrator and artist, Tanino Liberatore.

Trevor Cairns, Chief Marketing Officer from Umbro explains why the brand took this direction. Looking back through our imagery archives, we discovered that Umbro used girls to promote their shirts in the World Cup year of 1966. We have used the wives and girlfriends of players who represent the Champion nations to model our new shirts. This is an irreverent, fun and Umbro way to showcase these great products, to celebrate global football culture in a World Cup year and to give a nod to our own history and heritage.

The Umbro World Champions Collection of football shirts and T-shirts is available from leading independents. RRP £70 for the Limited Edition box (including poster of all the crests signed by the artists, the shirt, story booklet about the inspiration behind each design and a crest pin badge), £50 for shirt, £25 for T-shirt. nike football shirt culture adidas puma umbro"

May 06, 2010

Lima beauty Vanessa Tello, a 20 year old professional bikini & TV commercial model, was selected Miss Reef Peru 2010 at LarcoMar's complex Club Aura in Miraflores, Peru this past Feb, 2010. She will represent Peru at the Miss Reef International in Panama in April.

April 22, 2010

A set of pictures and images from the Peruvian documentary "Ollas y Sueños" (Cooking Up Dreams) released in August, 2009 about the 500 years of fusion (mixture) cuisine in Peru.

Peru is the birthplace of world fusion cuisine and the cultural mixture and miscegenation (marriage) of ancient native cuisines with that of several different types of cuisines of four continents.

Ask.com wrote - "Thanks to pre-Inca
and Inca heritage and to Spanish, Basque, African,
Sino-Cantonese, Japanese and finally Italian, French and British
immigration
(mainly throughout the 19th century), Peruvian Cuisine combines the
flavors of
four continents. With the eclectic variety of traditional dishes, the
Peruvian
culinary arts are in constant evolution, and impossible to list in their
entirety. Suffice it to mention that along the Peruvian coast alone
there are
more than two thousand different types of soups, and that there are more
than
250 traditional desserts.

The great variety in Peruvian Cuisine stems from three major influences:

Peru's unique
geography,
84 of the 104 possible life zones on Earth according to Holdridge

Peru's openness and
blending of distinct races and cultures

The incorporation of
ancient cuisine into modern Peruvian Cuisine"

Peru - A Food obsess Nation

Peruvian Cuisine is one of the main driving forces of Peru’s rapid economic development in the last 15 years, and
growing national pride. Similar to France, Spain, Italy, and Japan, cuisine in Peru, and the people
that make it, are respected at all levels of society. It is the most
revealing aspect of Peruvian society, more so than music, art, or futbol (soccer). Guarango's De Ollas y Sueños, (Cooking Up
Dreams), is a beautiful filmed released last year which opened to much domestic and international acclaim. The film follows
Peruvian Cuisine around Peru and around the world.

Peru is
considered one of the most important center for the genetic diversity of the world's crops:

Choclo (corn), 35 varieties

Tomatoes,
15 species

Potatoes, Peru is the birthplace of the potato. The Ancient Peruvians (pre-Inca
civilizations) cultivated and domesticated the potato almost 10,000
years ago. Of the roughly 4,500 varieties of potatoeson Earth, 3,000
are indigenous to Peru.

Sweet Potatoes, 150 varieties

Peanuts are native to Peru and were taken by Spanish and Portuguese merchants
to Africa.

March 17, 2010

Since today is St Patrick's Day, there must be a "Pot of Gold" at the end of the rainbow....;-)

Scott Meinzer wrote - "It's been raining on and off all day here in San Francisco, randomly it started haling and then this rainbow showed up.... By the time I grabbed my camera it was starting to fade away but I still managed to snap this HDR before it disappeared"

March 11, 2010

San Francisco Bay Area 18-25 Year Old Female Casting Call Today For Macy's Project! Looking
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This is a special client production in
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